clarinetto contrabasso

double bass, also called contrabass, string bass, bass, bass viol, bass fiddle, or bull fiddle, French contrebasse, German Kontrabass, stringed musical instrument, the lowest-pitched member of the violin family, sounding an octave lower than the cello.

Extreme depth: Contra Clarinets Usually the composer employs this instrument for special effects. The effects are not only acoustically, contra clarinets are optically impressive, too. It's extremely deep tone is comparable to that of a string base. In modern wind band compositions you can find that part frequently.

The names contrabass and double bass refer to the instrument's range and use one octave lower than the cello (i.e. doubling on cello).

The contrabass clarinet provides the true bass to the clarinet choir, and easily serves as the bass to an entire woodwind section. It blends well with the bass clarinet, baritone sax, and bassoon (usually with the contra played an octave lower), and often doubles the tuba and string bass at unison.

Modern contrabass clarinets are transposing instruments pitched in B♭, sounding two octaves lower than the common B♭ soprano clarinet and one octave below the bass clarinet. Some contrabass clarinet models have extra keys to extend the range down to low written E♭3, D3 or C3.

Doubling implies that a particular note in a chord is being played or sung by more than one voice or instrument. Doubling may be in unison, that is, the exact same pitch, or in octaves. Inversion and doubling are the two principal methods of voicing used by music arrangers.

Modern contrabass clarinets are transposing instruments pitched in B♭, sounding two octaves lower than the common B♭ soprano clarinet and one octave below the bass clarinet. Some contrabass clarinet models have extra keys to extend the range down to low written E♭3, D3 or C3.

First used in 19th-century classical orchestras and military bands, the contrabass clarinet is one of the more obscure members of the woodwind family. It has long held an appeal for jazz musicians intent on creating a wide tonal spectrum in their work.

Doubling is usually defined as playing a second instrument in the same family, for example two woodwinds or two brass instruments. Technically if you play a woodwind and brass you're still doubling but it's not nearly as common or useful.

Cello and bass are both low instruments. However, the bass is about an octave lower than cello. Unlike its cousins, the contrabass' strings are in fourths. The strings on a bass are – from low to high – E A D G.

Contrabass clarinet - An octave below the bass clarinet. BB♭ contrabass clarinet. Common in the 20th century, getting rarer now. Rendall lists also contrabass clarinet in C as obsolete, and groups it and the BB♭ contrabass in baritone and bass.

A rare instrument, it is generally used in clarinet choir ensembles, where it plays (mostly) the bass line. Also a rare instrument, very few Contra Bass clarinets are present in the same area. It is pitched two octaves below the Bb Clarinet. Only three of these were ever made.